READING LEVEL 1

Identifies personally relevant information and ideas within highly familiar contexts

Full support

Works alongside expert/mentor

Prompting and modelling provided

Highly familiar contexts

Concrete and immediate

Very restricted range of contexts

Short and simple

Highly explicit purpose

Limited, highly familiar vocabulary

PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

Purpose and audience

• Identifies personally relevant reasons for reading

• Comprehends written texts that are short, explicit and culturally accessible, e.g. local advertisements, short personal story

• Makes some predictions, drawing on personal experience and some prior knowledge of context
  

• Recognises the orientation of simple texts, e.g. left to right, top to bottom

• Locates specific information, e.g. place and time from an appointment card or calendar
• Identifies information in a simple diagram, table, map or plan

• Understands that text features may influence the interpretation of a message, e.g. placement of a photo or heading in a newspaper